Legal wrangling over same-sex marriage and the demise of Cover Oregon, the state's insurance sign-up website, dominated Oregon's political headlines last week.

After months of trying and failing to repair the wreckage of its failed insurance exchange site, Cover Oregon officials voted Friday to scrap it and enter Oregon into the federal exchange site.

The Washington Post reported that the deal already had been done behind the scenes in Washington, D.C., for the federal government to take over.

In Oregon, Republicans had a field day issuing press-bombs denigrating Democrats for backing the insurance exchange.

Gay and lesbian groups and couples focused on a federal courtroom in Eugene, where Judge Michael McShane heard arguments on whether he should rule Oregon's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. McShane questioned attorneys closely, wondering aloud whether voters should be allowed to weigh in. But he gave little clue on how he might rule.

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